BayitEssays on parsha, Tanakh, daily practice, and the rhythms of Jewish life - from the team building Bayit.
The Hebrew word parsha means "portion." Each week, Jews around the world read one of 54 sections of the Torah. Here's how the cycle works and how to enter it.
Read →Five minutes a day, every day, is enough to build a lifelong relationship with Torah. Here's a practical guide for English-speaking beginners.
Read →Shabbos begins eighteen minutes before sunset on Friday and ends after three stars on Saturday night. Here's the practical rhythm and the deeper why.
Read →You don't need to be fluent in Hebrew to read the Bible in Hebrew. Reading the original alongside a translation is the single highest-leverage Torah practice for English speakers.
Read →In English, "mitzvah" is often translated as a good deed. In Hebrew it means commandment - and it names something far stranger and more interesting.
Read →Bayit (בית) is the Hebrew word for house. But across Tanakh and the Sages, it names everything from the Beit Hamikdash to the Jewish family to one's inner life.
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